Musicians Union Chief Pledges To Fight Systemic Racism In His Own Union & Throughout Industry
David Robb Labor EditorRay Hair, president of the American Federation of Musicians, has added his voice to the chorus of industry union leaders supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, while pledging “to continue to confront the ways our union and the music industry have contributed to persistent systemic racism.”“The unconscionable displays of racism in the United States during the past weeks and months have prompted millions of people around the world to take to the streets in protest over the inhuman, intolerable cruelty that Black Americans have endured from this nation’s system of criminal justice,” he said Monday.